« According to the prevailing opinion, these individuals - who were the pride of their parents - should have a strong and stable self-awareness. But it is quite the opposite; Everything they do, they do well, even brilliantly, we admire and envy them, they go from success to success in all that seems important to them, but all this is useless. In the background awaits depression, the feeling of emptiness, of alienation. As soon as the rogue of "grandiosity" is lacking, they do not feel "the champion", not unquestionably the superstar, or they suddenly feel that they have failed in some ideal image of their self, their lives seem meaningless to them. They are then the victim of anxiety attacks, tortured by intense feelings, indignity and guilt. What are the reasons for such profound unrest in such rich personalities? »
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Alice Miller
The future of the drama of the gifted child |
Alice Miller
The future of the drama of the gifted child
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« For example, the refoulement of the brutal abuses they once "were victims of causes many individuals to destroy the lives of others and their own, to burn down the homes of immigrants, to retaliate - and above all the market to christen all these acts "patriotism" - so as not to see their own truth and not to feel the despair of the martyred child. »
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Alice Miller
The future of the drama of the gifted child |
Alice Miller
The future of the drama of the gifted child
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« As soon as the adult can take his current feelings seriously, he begins to grasp the treatment he once inflicted on his feelings and needs, and that refoulement was his only chance to survive. »
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Alice Miller
The future of the drama of the gifted child |
Alice Miller
The future of the drama of the gifted child
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